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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Comprehensive Encryption: Keeping sensitive data safe from prying eyes
Cyber security is an area of burgeoning concern across the digital world. Over the last several years, companies, governments and individual users are grappling with an alarming increase in the variety and frequency of cybercrimes and threats. This calls for enhanced cybersecurity initiatives and high-end automation efforts to safeguard sensitive data from being illegally accessed, disrupted or disabled.
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
Muktware: ownCloud 5 Released, open competitor to Dropbox
Cloud based storage and file syncing services like Dropbox or Google Drive wile offer great comfort of having access to your data while on move (you don need the internet), it does pose very serious security, privacy and ownership risks. Any data that you put on these...
Algorithms for the Kitchen: Google Reader’s sunset is the dawn of ownCloud News
The first news of the day is that the fantastic ownCloud community has released ownCloud Server 5.0.0. Congratulations everyone! The second news is that Google has decided to power down Google Reader. This is a sad news for the users of the Reader, but it’s a great...
Softpedia: ownCloud Community Edition 5.0 Officially Launched
ownCloud, an open source secure file sync and share software, announced the release of its latest community edition, giving users a customizable and secure way to host their own cloud file sync and share.ownCloud, an open source secure file sync and share software,...
The Var Guy: Open Source ownCloud Gains Key Features with New Release
ownCloud, the open source platform for syncing and sharing data, has gained a slew of new features with the release of the latest version of ownCloud Community Edition. From usability tweaks to security enhancements, the tool is now in a stronger position than ever to...
ownCloud 5 released: a vision realized, a vision expanded
Today we released ownCloud 5, a very important milestone for the ownCloud community and perhaps the most important release so far. But before going into the details I want to take a step back and look at what the original idea of ownCloud was at the beginning. The...
Latest ownCloud Community Edition Brings Greater Usability, Performance and Integration to File Sync and Share
New user interface, content-based search, antivirus and integration enhancements just some of the added features and quality enhancements to give users a free alternative to “roll their own” Dropbox Lexington, MA – March 14, 2013 – ownCloud, the world's most popular...
Answer Guy: Owning Your Cloud: What Does That Mean?
This week I was discussing a new tool called “OwnCloud” with a client and Answer Guy Central working partner. He’s one of the smartest people I know, and our conversation started with me telling him I had come across a way to get past the security worries that many...
Boston Business Journal: Firm offers clients secure way to share their data
While the concept of the "cloud" is one of the hottest topics in IT right now, many companies still have misgivings about how safe and secure it is — and how much control they really have over their own data.
Free webinar: Let us help you fix your Dropbox problem
On March 19 I’ll be hosting a free webinar to show you how ownCloud can help businesses take back control of their sensitive data.
Does Your Company Have a “Dropbox Problem”? ownCloud announces Webinar to Help
Webinar will demonstrate how to use your internal servers, storage as well as security and governance policies, to create a secure enterprise file sync and share service
Solving the “Dropbox” Problem
Come hear ownCloud CTO and founder Frank Karlitschek talk you through the “Dropbox” problem, and show you how you can easily solve this problem with ownCloud.
Information Week: Dropbox Alternative OwnCloud Uses Your Own Storage
If you're leery of trusting your data to a third-party cloud-storage service, and have a web server of your own that you'd rather use, ownCloud may be the answer. It's free software that installs on most web servers and transforms it into your own private Dropbox...
NY Times: Where Apps Meet Work, Secret Data Is at Risk
For readers of this blog, or for any IT manager this New York Times story will come as no surprise. But now it’s hit the mainstream.
Beta 2 of ownCloud 5 now up
Thanks as always to a great community effort, we expect to launch GA in the next couple weeks.
Techcrunch.com: Meet ownCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox
The first beta release of ownCloud 5 was just announced, with a release candidate due in the next week or so. I spoke with Karlitschek about the upcoming release of the latest open source offering from the project. According to him, there are three major elements of...